Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fagot \Fag"ot\n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh.
   orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. ??????? bundle, fagot. Cf.
   {Fagotto}.]
   1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees,
      used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or
      other purposes in fortification; a fascine. --Shak.

   2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into
      bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding
      heat; a pile.

   3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See {Fagotto}.

   4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster
      of a company. [Eng.] --Addison.

   5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]

   {Fagot iron}, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from
      fagots.

   {Fagot vote}, the vote of a person who has been constituted a
      voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes.
      [Political cant, Eng.]

Fagot \Fag"ot\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fagoted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fagoting}.]
   To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle;
   also, to collect promiscuously. --Dryden.

Source : WordNet®

fagot
     n 1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: {faggot},
           {fag}, {fairy}, {nance}, {pansy}, {queen}, {queer}, {poof},
           {poove}, {pouf}]
     2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: {faggot}]
     v 1: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the
          blouse for his wife" [syn: {faggot}]
     2: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
        [syn: {faggot}]
     3: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the
        sticks" [syn: {faggot}, {faggot up}]